“Pekina” and “Hawkesbury.”
Messrs. Devitt & Moore owned two other well-known clippers, built of wood. These were Pekina, 770 tons, built by Smith, of Aberdeen, in 1865; Hawkesbury, 1120 tons, built by Pile, of Sunderland, in 1868.
The Pekina was in the South Australian trade, but the Hawkesbury always ran to Sydney. Though she had many fine passages to her credit, the Hawkesbury’s chief claim to fame was her reputation for being the wettest ship in the wool trade. She was composite built, but the Pekina was all wood.
Messrs. Devitt & Moore sold the Pekina in 1880, but the Hawkesbury was still in the Sydney trade in the late eighties.